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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 NW wrote: > I have been looking at the possibility of using my one printer for all > three computers at home, see other thread. Now I don't know if I have > done anything silly but ..... > > Yesterday I couldn't print anything. Research tracked down the problem > to the permissions on dev/lp0. They were rw-rw---- with user = root and > group = lp. So others had no permissions. > > I used chmod (with sudo) to change the permissions to rw-rw-rw- and I > was then able to print. Fine. > > Today same problem. The permissions had reverted to rw-rw----. I have > changed them again. Now I don't want to have to keep running chmod every > session, that is just silly and anyway it has only just started to happen. > > Can anyone help here please? For a start I don't understand why the new > set of permissions changed back. Shouldn't my change remain fixed? > > Thanks > > Neil > > I just wondered if you need to be part of the lp group, depending on your graphical interface thing, there is usually a program that controls users and its a simple tick box to add your user name to different groups. I will let others comment on this as It maynot be the right solution, Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Ubuntu 10.04 is out soon : Visit www.ubuntu.com for details DCGLUG MEETINGS - Details on www.dcglug.org.uk/ - please click on Group meetings link on right hand side Aged 11 - 19 then dfey may be for you, please goto http://www.dfey.org for more details -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkvFd44ACgkQaggq1k2FJq3DQACfQzcjmiX7hSH1OsKWQrmKA2Rw DcEAnRF5Awym0S5vuALPIZV1gBg1/Sks =RRhi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html